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Mainframe systems have served as the bedrock of enterprise networks for years, standing unmatched in terms of reliability, scalability, and data protection. Security risks have become a pressing concern as the digital landscape evolves, emerging practices like DevOps, the rise of open-source, and the move to hybrid cloud models.

Regularly performing preventive PC maintenance provides managed services providers with an excellent opportunity to spot previously unidentified issues that could become bigger problems later. There's a lot to remember when performing preventive maintenance.

Implement a Zero Trust security model with confidence with these best practices and tool suggestions to secure your organization. The core components of zero trust include least privileged access policies, network segmentation and access management.

SSL certificates are essential for encrypting traffic between systems such as clients, which access servers via web browsers or applications that communicate with remote systems. Certificates protect client and server data, commonly involving confidential information such as credit card details or social security numbers.

Whether you're facing a security audit or interested in configuring systems securely, CIS SecureSuite Membership is here to help. CIS SecureSuite provides thousands of organizations with access to an effective and comprehensive set of cybersecurity resources and tools to implement the CIS Critical Security Controls and CIS Benchmarks.

Implementing a robust backup strategy for safeguarding crucial business data is more essential than ever. Without such a plan, organizations risk paying ransoms and incurring expenses related to investigations and lost productivity.

IT teams need help to monitor and enforce BYOD policies during summer months when more employees often travel or work remotely. In this Help Net Security video, Jeremy Ventura, Director, Security Strategy & Field CISO at ThreatX, discusses how employees increasingly rely on personal devices to access corporate data during the summer, which could open the door to cyber criminals seeking to penetrate corporate networks.

IT teams are struggling to monitor and enforce BYOD policies during summer months when more employees are often traveling or working remotely, according to ThreatX. With more endpoints and applications in use, and often personal rather than corporate issued, the risk to corporate data may increase. 55% of employees admit to relying solely on their mobile devices while working from vacation and holiday destinations in the summer.

There are best practices you can follow to secure your Mac and protect yourself against hack attempts. In this article, we'll cover some of the ways to protect yourself and show you how to make your Mac as secure as possible against hackers and those who would try to collect your data.

DDoS: DDoS attacks request a huge number of connections, to exhausts resources and potentially lead to a crash as the attack overwhelms both APIs and the backend systems that supply data to the APIs. Man in the middle attacks: MITM attacks occur when an outsider discreetly positions themself in a conversation between a user and an API endpoint, eavesdropping or impersonating one of the parties in a bid to steal or modify private data.